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  1. Jaskaran Singh

    Questions For Advaita or Vishishtadvaita Vedanta

    Didn't you hear? According to CC from NYC, not accepting an individual (rAmakR^iShNa) who worshiped his penis as a shivali~Ngam (and who considered swear words as meaningful as the Vedas and the Puranas and was particularly fond of performing japa by muttering the word “c*nt,” going...
  2. Jaskaran Singh

    Questions For Advaita or Vishishtadvaita Vedanta

    praNAm, Whatever you say...
  3. Jaskaran Singh

    POLL - To Make HinduDIR BLUE

    I have a question. Why do different people have different colored names? Like some people on this thread have black, some purple, and some red. What's that about?
  4. Jaskaran Singh

    POLL - To Make HinduDIR BLUE

    Yes, it should. vaiShNava vedAnta, nimbArka sampradAya (although I'm also somewhat influenced philosophically by nArAyaNatirtha's chandrika commentary on IshvarakR^iShNa's sA~Nkhya kArikA, despite myself not being a follower of kapila) With regards to vaidika nityakarma-s, you already know that...
  5. Jaskaran Singh

    Questions For Advaita or Vishishtadvaita Vedanta

    Yeah, and vivekAnanda ate beef and encouraged other Hindus to do the same. Just because some neo-Hindu "godman" does something doesn't make it compliant with the shAstra-s. I assume AsArAm bApU-s alleged rape of a 15 yr-old girl was also due to being overcome by "bhakti." After all, he too, is a...
  6. Jaskaran Singh

    Daevas

    I view them as garbage statements which are offensive to Hindu-s...:p Probably not. According to iranchamber.com, the pre-Zoroastrian Iranian religion involved the worship of two main gods: Mithra and Apam Napat, along with other deities such as Airyaman, Sraosha, and Verethragna, but Ahura...
  7. Jaskaran Singh

    Hinduist would you agree with this statement?

    Not historically, no. The "madhyadesha" isn't referring to the center of bhArat, it's referring to the central area of brahmavarta*, the locus area of vedic civilization, probably near or around kAshI all the way north until the vraja region**; the bauddha-s called it majjhimadesa, I think...
  8. Jaskaran Singh

    Hinduist would you agree with this statement?

    There is no such word maghAvan, it's maghavan or maghavA/maghavAn which means beneficent one, from magha (bounty) + vant (possessor/controller); btw, the word maghonIH (i.e. liberal in distribution/munificent), one of the epithets of puShan (and many other deities) is also related to the word...
  9. Jaskaran Singh

    Salvation and achieving happiness !!

    Yeah, I agree, that is some crazy sh**. To be fair, I also use the term mlechchha, but not in a racist sense that he's using it; I only use it to refer to people who are virulently anti-Hindu. I wonder if he realizes that the people who run this forum are individuals whom he would probably...
  10. Jaskaran Singh

    Questions For Advaita or Vishishtadvaita Vedanta

    praNAm, Really, I'm the one engaging in "picking fights?" Rather, you were the one who seemed to bait me to respond by asking me ridiculously stu*** (for the lack of a better word) questions like "Do you think Lord Vishnu is happy when you say the Trimurti doesn't exist?" or dismissing...
  11. Jaskaran Singh

    Salvation and achieving happiness !!

    namaste, Perhaps you're being a bit harsh on HLK? Many of his points are actually quite informative. Although I agree that he has somewhat of a casteist/sexist tendency at times, it's not as if he is actually advocating that a woman or a shUdra should be harmed or should be treated as lesser. If...
  12. Jaskaran Singh

    Hinduist would you agree with this statement?

    Actually, I think that the name yamI itself is based on yama, just like indrANi and indra (only based on brother rather than husband). The actual name is yamunA, as in the yamunAnadI. Actually, perhaps a better comparison would by jAhnavI and ga~NgA. The latter is the actual name, whereas the...
  13. Jaskaran Singh

    Penguin pulls book by Doniger

    Why? He and Zaid Hamid provide such great comedy, lol...
  14. Jaskaran Singh

    Oddities of Various Purana-s

    What is with this obsession with transliteration? The system of capitalization in languages, I think, is unique to Greek and Latin scripts (and all European scripts derived therein), whereas biruni isn't even a European-origin word. If you were to directly transliterate...
  15. Jaskaran Singh

    Confused about Sikhism/Hinduism differences

    Yeah, it's a but weird for him to make that "this is not your house, etc." comment. I could understand if you were trying to take prashAd out of the bowl, but at langar time, giving the food is considered sevA, so one who's giving shouldn't reprimand the one asking, even if he/she does make a...
  16. Jaskaran Singh

    khs

    yAvaddha vA AtmanAdevAn upAste tAvadasmai devAbhavanti atha ya etadevaM vedAham evasAmAsmi mayyetAs sarvAdevatA ityevaM hAsminnetAs sarvAdevatAbhavanti. Sorry, I just couldn't resist...:p Sevéda, sevéda (did you see what I did there, you being Slovenian and all?). Yeah, I know, I suck at puns...
  17. Jaskaran Singh

    khs

    You mean parishiShTam, right? A parIShTa is a person...:p
  18. Jaskaran Singh

    khs

    sUrya/Aditya is the sun god, so of course he would be compared to the sun, also parjanya (often considered a form of indra) is compared to a bull inseminating pR^ithvI/bhUmi within the veda-s themselves, so I don't see how that is a form of defaming...
  19. Jaskaran Singh

    What is the role of Hindu Deities in Advaita Vedanta? What is their relation to Brahman?

    According to Adi sha~NkarAchArya, kR^iShNa is the supreme lord/parameshvara, hence why he states in his viShNushaTpadIstotram, "matsyAdibhiravatArairavatAravatA'vatA sadA vasudhAM parameshvara paripAlyo bhavatA bhavatApabhIto'haM (O one who has descended/taken avatAta as matsya (fish) and other...
  20. Jaskaran Singh

    What is the role of Hindu Deities in Advaita Vedanta? What is their relation to Brahman?

    Actually, it wasn't the gItA itself which established a hierarchy (as the original verse can be interpreted many different ways), but sha~Nkara in his commentary/bhAShyam on the gItA who clearly establishes a difference between kR^iShNa and other deities by stating that worshipping gaNesha or...
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